Carlos Slim Helu is a Mexican business magnate, investor, and philanthropist;
He was also once the richest man in the world, according to Forbes, and now remains on the list of the top 10 billionaires worldwide.
Carlos Slim’s conglomerates include real estate, retail, hospitality, education, health care, industrial manufacturing, energy, transportation, media, entertainment, high-technology, sports, and financial services.
We’ve put together this collection of the greatest Carlos Slim Quotes:
45 Carlos Slim Helu Quotes
1. “All times are good time for those who know how to work and have the tools to do so.” – Carlos Slim Helu
2. “I’ve always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others. Just as I think it’s important to run companies well, with a close eye to the bottom line, I think you have to use your entrepreneurial experience to make corporate philanthropy effective.” – Carlos Slim Helu
3. “Staying occupied displaces preoccupation and problems, and when we face our problems, they disappear.” – Carlos Slim Helu
4. “The truth is, you leave this world with nothing. What you are is a temporary administrator, and you must administer well… the wealth in your care, and generate more. The surplus can be used to do many things for people.” – Carlos Slim Helu
5. “Competition makes you better, always, always makes you better, even if the competitor wins.” – Carlos Slim Helu
6. “It’s important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.” – Carlos Slim Helu
7. “Inertia is in our minds always.” – Carlos Slim Helu
8. “The only way you finish with poverty is with jobs.” – Carlos Slim Helu
9. “The key is the Internet. The United States is by far the most advanced country in this new digital culture, so we have to be there. The Internet is the heart of this new civilization, and telecommunications are the nervous system, or circulatory system.” – Carlos Slim Helu
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10. “With three work days a week, we would have more time to relax; for quality of life.” – Carlos Slim Helu
11. “Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards.” – Carlos Slim Helu
12. “Well, when I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.” – Carlos Slim Helu
13. “Money is not a goal. The goal is to make companies grow, develop, be competitive, be in different areas, be efficient to have a great human team inside the company.” – Carlos Slim Helu
14. “Anyone who is not investing now is missing a tremendous opportunity.” – Carlos Slim Helu
15. “When you live for others’ opinions, you are dead. I don’t want to live thinking about how I’ll be remembered.” – Carlos Slim Helu
16. “If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.” – Carlos Slim Helu
17. “In this new wave of technology, you can’t do it all yourself, you have to form alliances.” – Carlos Slim Helu
18. “It’s very important for leaders in business to work to create human capital, a team that has the same sense of purpose and alignment.” – Carlos Slim Helu
19. “When we decide to do something, we do it quickly.” – Carlos Slim Helu
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20. “Most people try to make a better world for our children when what they should be doing is making better children for our world.” – Carlos Slim Helu
21. “Work well done is not only a responsibility to yourselves and society; it is also an emotional need.” – Carlos Slim Helu
22. “Choose the right employees and then set them loose.” – Carlos Slim Helu
23. “In business, you invest when things are not in good shape. When you invest at these times, you take a better position than your competitors. When there is a recession and your competition does not invest, they are giving you the advantage.” – Carlos Slim Helu
24. “All businesses make mistakes. The trick is to avoid large ones.” – Carlos Slim Helu
25. “People need to feel very good about their achievements. They get pride from what they are doing.” – Carlos Slim Helu
26. “One of the big errors people are making right now is thinking that old-style businesses will be obsolete, when actually they will be an important part of this new civilization. Some retail groups are introducing e-commerce and think that the bricks are no longer useful. But they will continue to be important.” – Carlos Slim Helu
27. “Focus on essentials and try not to get distracted and bogged down by things that don’t add value to the bottom line.” – Carlos Slim Helu
28. “You cannot have people in your organization who are pessimists. They take you to mediocrity.” – Carlos Slim Helu
29. “Courage taught me no matter how bad a crisis gets… any sound investment will eventually pay off.” – Carlos Slim Helu
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30. “When we face our problems, they disappear. So learn from failure and let success be the silent incentive.” – Carlos Slim Helu
31. “I learned from my father that you continue to invest and reinvest in your business – including during crises.” – Carlos Slim Helu
32. “You cannot live without doing something.” – Carlos Slim Helu
33. “When you are convinced what to do and what you need to do, it’s not hard to do that.” – Carlos Slim Helu
34. “Think of an athlete. He may be very good in his own house, but not as good as his neighbors. You have to go beyond your home. You have to go worldwide.” – Carlos Slim Helu
35. “Anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.” – Carlos Slim Helu
36. “With good perspective of history we can have a better understanding of the past and present, and thus a clear vision of the future.” – Carlos Slim Helu
37. “Live the present intensely and fully, do not let the past be a burden, and let the future be an incentive. Each person forges his or her own destiny.” – Carlos Slim Helu
38. “When there is a crisis, that’s when some are interested in getting out and that’s when we are interested in getting in.” – Carlos Slim Helu
39. “Do not allow negative feelings and emotions to control your mind. Emotional harm does not come from others; it is conceived and developed within ourselves.” – Carlos Slim Helu
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40. “Mistakes are normal and human. Make them small, accept them, correct them, and forget them.” – Carlos Slim Helu
41. “Technology is going to transform people’s lives and society everywhere in the world. I spend most of my time studying new technologies. My main task is to understand what’s going on and try to see where we can fit in.” – Carlos Slim Helu
42. “The biggest things in life are not materials.” – Carlos Slim Helu
43. “I think entrepreneurs… can think long term and find solutions and go in the way for long term solutions and not short-term.” – Carlos Slim Helu
44. “The people inside the group need to have some conditions to follow. We have a philosophy of leadership, ideas, and concepts. They need to share that.” – Carlos Slim Helu
45. “The combination of non-profit organizations like the foundations and profit businesses can work together in some areas.” – Carlos Slim Helu
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